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...OPEC's generosity likely to increase. According to a new study by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., the collective surplus of OPEC nations plunged from $62 billion in 1974 to $29 billion in 1975. That drastic rate of decline will diminish as world demand for petroleum picks up again, but it appears that for many oil producers the annual payments surpluses have peaked-and so might their aid commitment...
...negotiations should be conducted according to Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 without preconditions. The Syrians can bring forward any questions they want to discuss. But what the Syrians are trying to do is to diminish the importance of the Geneva Peace Conference and impose the terms of any settlement in the Middle East by commanding a majority in the Security Council. The Arab regimes are using the Palestinian question as a pawn on their chessboard of rivalry and intrigue...
Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, said in a short report issued with the figures, "Although these comparisons [of goals and actual figures] offer encouraging evidence of the University's effort to date, they in no way diminish the need for a continuing effort in affirmative action to achieve the July 1976 targets...
...President promised that Kissinger would continue to have the "dominant role in the formulation of and the carrying out of foreign policy." Nonetheless, the changes will diminish Kissinger's powers. Ford stripped Kissinger of his second job, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In that post, Kissinger chaired the 40 Committee, which oversees the CIA, and had control over all of the foreign policy recommendations sent to the President. Though the job went to a loyal Kissinger aide, Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, the shift ended Kissinger's monopoly as the President's foreign policy adviser. One White House...
...spite of the complicated social problems she encounters in her work, she persists in offering idealistic solutions. She maintains that knowledge about abortions is becoming more widespread so that problems of late abortions will diminish. And she advocates decreasing machine and drug care for terminal patients and increasing human care, despite her knowledge that medical personnel and families of dying patients feel extremely uncomfortable with them and avoid them when the patient is close to death...